SPARCS 101/102 Overview
SPARCS 101
Intended audience: Persons new to the SPARCS submission process.
- What is SPARCS? (UB04)
- How often do I have to submit? What happens if I don't? (Audit Process)
- What is an SOD and how do I get one?
- What is the Health Commerce System (HCS)?
- Where do I find my submission results?
- I sent my data, why doesn't it appear in the audit report?
- What are unresolved errors?
- How do I proceed to correct my facility's errors?
- What records are not in SPARCS?
- After I submitted data, I realize I need to delete records. How do I do this? (Deletion Process)
- How does FTP work?
- What are the changes for 2009
- The new Source of Payment Typology.
- The physician license edit.
- The potentially duplicate records files.
SPARCS 102
Intended audience: Persons who need to gain a better understanding of how their SPARCS data is used and what new "Tools" are on the HCS to help improve the data.
- Recap the Changes for 2009
- How do I view my data?
- Raw data: Hospitals own data.
- Report generated data: Annual Report Generator query tool..
- How can Race & Ethnicity collection be improved?
- What are the Quality Reports on the HCS?
- Physician License Report.
- Present-on-Admission by Payer.
- Race & Ethnicity.
- What are the Performance Metrics Reports on the HCS?
- Potentially Preventable Complication (PPC) Reports.
- Institutional Cost Report (ICR) Comparison.
- Inpatient Quality Indicators (IQI).